Quake in Singapore

As of 11.50am here in Singapore. I on the 16th story of my block and I felt my chair moving uncontrollably. I sat up and planted both my feet on the ground to check if it's my body causing the sudden sway. I felt the ground tremor alittle more. Crap, an earth quake?! Here in Singapore? In the north west of Singapore?

I sat uncomfortably and asked my brother who was sitting beside me if he felt the floor moving. He said that he felt it too. Thus we ran downstairs using the stairs to check out the movement on the ground floor. We left the house in around 30 seconds. By then, the quake has more or less abated. Around 11.55am, we reached the ground floor. Nobody was aware that we had just experienced an earthquake.

From reading about earthquake material since the first few tremors that happened a couple years ago. I knew the if you could feel a quake on a high story flat but the people on the ground floor cannot feel a thing. Then it qualifies at least a richter scale 3. I also promptly called my friend studying at SIM at the moment. And he confirms that they had felt movement on the 5th floor and the roof. At first they thought that it was due to a the construction of the escalator. But then they concluded it was a quake after receiving my call.

There you go folks. My very first quake experience here in Singapore. I'm wondering if I felt it at 3 over here, the people at the East Coast must have felt at least a 3.5-4.0. Hope they weren't too shook up. Anyways, end of blog. Alauz Out!

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